Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Opening on 28 November at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Ulay, Ulay & Abramović explores the groundbreaking collaboration between Marina Abramović and Ulay, whose shared practice transformed the possibilities of performance art. Meeting in Amsterdam in 1975, the artists developed an uncompromising approach to performance, using their bodies to investigate identity, vulnerability, endurance and the boundaries between art and life. Their 12-year partnership, from 1976 to 1988, produced seminal works including Relation in Space (1976), presented at the Venice Biennale, and The Lovers (1988), their 90-day journey along the Great Wall of China.

Bringing together videos, photographs, sculptures, drawings, sketches and letters, the exhibition traces the development of their collaborative practice, alongside a selection of Ulay’s early solo works. These include S’he (1973–74), a series of intimate self-portraits exploring identity and transformation, and FOTOTOT (1976), an experiment in which photographs gradually disappear when exposed to light.